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With right-handed Trea Turner due to bat, left-handed pitcher Tyler Matzek is replaced by right-handed pitcher Josh Tomlin (pictured) in a game on April 6, 2021. [1]In baseball, the lefty-righty switch is a maneuver by which a player who may be at a disadvantage against an opponent of a certain handedness is replaced by a substitute who is better suited for the situation.
Hitters traditionally feel they have an advantage by batting from the opposite side of the plate from the pitcher's throwing arm (e.g. batting left-handed when facing a right-handed pitcher), and pitchers traditionally feel they have an advantage by throwing with the same arm as the batter hits from (e.g. throwing right-handed to a right-handed ...
In spite of this, Bob Feller is viewed as the first pitcher to accomplish the feat, [6] [7] since his then-record 18 strikeouts was the first to occur during the 20th century and the live-ball era. [8] Out of the twenty pitchers who have accomplished the feat, fifteen were right-handed and five pitched left-handed.
Houston’s Yordan Alvarez might be the top left-handed hitter in Major League Baseball. Literally — neither player considers himself left-handed at all. MLB and its history are dotted with men ...
Tomo Ohka batted left-handed against right-handed pitchers in three games in 2006, but otherwise batted exclusively right-handed. Left-handed reliever Steve Kline was primarily a switch hitter, but batted right-handed against right-handed pitchers several times throughout his career. [ 7 ]
Chisholm, who is the Marlins’ primary leadoff hitter against right-handed pitching, has seen his on-base percentage plummet to .277, and his 50 strikeouts are second most in baseball. Jesus ...
Number of games played during the 2025 Major League Baseball season: Throws: Denotes right-handed (R) or left-handed (L) pitcher MLB: Total career games played as a pitcher in Major League Baseball * Denotes elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame: Bold: Denotes active player [a]
Their total is the lowest number of strikeouts accumulated to lead a league in Major League Baseball history (although Jacob deGrom only struck out 104 National League batters in 2020, the season was shortened by a pandemic to 60 games, or 37.04% of a regular season; had that season run a full 162 games, that would have been a net of 281 ...